Visual studio alternative?

[wonkawilly]

I came here to get a visual studio alternative and what I did found?
Install visual studio to compile monodevelop (lowercase on purpose)

Well... that's....

What can I say

hope in the future I will find an IDE with GUI builder, codewritter compiler and debugger etc,,,, a bit more user friendly: just install and play with.. I would like to write create some thing, just compile and make it work just out of the box
I have even tried CodeBlocks too but it needs a lot of preparation to use it with wxwidgets... Just it doesn't work right after setup,

Maybe I am born in the wrong planet because this seems to be the planet Microsoft not planet Earth
But it seems that is not that day!
Hope in the future will change way of doing things.

[aaferrari]

One option could be VSCodium (a fork of VSCode without the telemetry), which can be used as an IDE according to this.

And in this issue mentions DotDevelop (a fork of MonoDevelop which is trying to be given new life).